Week 20 - Poor Penny-dog. . .

It was finally explained to Penny that a baby was on the way. Some of you may say that its about time we told her, but we were trying to find the right time. Good news, though... She took it very well and is looking forward to having a little boy to play with. Penny's only request is that the baby boy does not try and ride her like a horse because as she told us, "I am not a horse, I am a Penny-dog."

Week 20 - Doctor's Appointment

The arrow points to the goods!!











Doesn't he look appalled that we are peaking in at him! That mouth is open just as wide as it can be!





Well, there's something to be said about "mother's intuition"--sometimes it is right!! I have to say, I would've been a little disappointed if I had been wrong about the sex of Baby Conner, not because I had a preference, but because that would mean my intuition still needed some work! :) It looks as though it was right this time though--and we are being blessed with a baby boy!! Just what this prissy girl needs--I'm sure I'll learn to get dirty, and play sports--or I'll just let Daddy do that! :) According to the doctors everything is progressing very nicely! Camden Michael Conner was none to shy on showing the ultrasound technician that he was in fact a BOY! She said that was the FIRST thing she saw when she turned the ultrasound machine on! hehe! Go figure--leave it to a male to wave it all out there for everyone to see!
That's really all to share this week--although, it is a very big announcement! I sure do hope that technician knew what she was doing, otherwise I'll really be eating my "mother's intuition" words!

Hopefully next time we'll have some pictures of the nursery!

Week 20 - Belly Update--Getting Bigger!!!

I SWEAR my butt isn't that big--it's the pants!

Week 18--Oh My Goodness--I KNOW that was it!

Well, it happened! I have been waiting and waiting--and everyone told me it would happen--and it did!! Let me explain:

It was Thursday and I was having an awful morning! Sometimes work just sucks--everyone's does from time to time, and this just happened to be one of those times. I hadn't been there for an hour and I was sitting at my desk frustrated and of course crying--hmm could my hormones be raging. . . :)
So there I am at my computer thinking about how much I really don't like our IT guy--and it happened. . .tap, tap, tap--just like that! I was so excited, I knew EXACTLY what that was!! It was the baby! It was't exactly what I had expected, since typically the first movement you feel is described as "flutters" and mine was more like "thumping"! But I know that was it, it wasn't gas--I'M SURE! I've felt little Thumper quite a few time since then--sometimes I just sit and wait for the little one to move, and sometimes it just sort of catches me off guard, and I grin--and no one knows why!

I'm sure the movement will become more constant soon enough, so for now I'm happy with my little reminders from time to time that there's someone in there that will soon be making an appearance!

Mel

Week 16 - Belly Update

Ok... I think I'm showing!

We are at week 16--that's right, 4 months. For those of you who are just now hearing this news--I'll give you a second to pick yourself up off the floor and come to the realization that the Conner's are, in fact, reproducing. . .

We had our 3rd doctor's visit today--and after a good 1 and a half hours of sitting in the waiting room w/ screaming children (I'm sure this is planned for conditioning new parents), we got to see an ACTUAL doctor (thus far we've only seen the nurse practitioner). Everything was "perfect, perfect, perfect"--which seems to be the only words we hear there, other than--"we're going to have to take some blood today"! So I'm thinking I must be really good at being pregnant, b/c I've never done ANYTHING "perfect, perfect, perfect"! We got to hear the heartbeat today--it was 151 bpm--very strong!

Things have been going well, and have been pretty uneventful so far. I'm getting a belly--and my belly button gets more and more shallow every day--I'm sure all of you are just so thrilled to know all of this! The excitement really picks up next month when we will have our 2nd and final ultrasound to find out the sex of Baby Conner. . . :)